Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 529
up our military bands. After once putting his horn to some practicaluse, the savage tried to make larger and betterones. The tribes on the Orinoco in South Amer-ica have all kinds of huge and strange-lookingtrumpets, some made of wood and some of clay, 416 FRQi^^ IROM THE DRUM OF THE SAVAGE TO THE… … THE TROMBONE. (SEE IAGi; 420.) these savages make a most fiendish sound withtheir war-horns, and it is said that even to-daythe noise throws nervous Spanish-Americans intofits of terror. The botuto, an enormous andhideous trumpet, is one of the most terrifying ofthese savage instruments. Besides…
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